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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 January 2013
1 Locke, John, A letter concerning toleration, ed. Tully, James H., Indianapolis 1983Google Scholar.
2 RVMS, p. xxv; MG, p. xvi.
3 RVMS, p. xiv; MG, p. xvii.
4 The fullest account of Popple is Robbins, Caroline, ‘Absolute liberty: the life and thought of William Popple, 1638–1708’, William and Mary Quarterly xxiv (1967), 190–223Google Scholar, but this does not consider the translation in depth. KG, 43–51, has some general comments. For Locke, Popple and the status of the translation see also the introduction to MM; Montuori, Mario, ‘L'epistola Lockiana sulla tolleranza dalla traduzione di Popple alla traduzione di Gough’, Giornale critico della filosofia Italiana xlviii (1969), 206–21Google Scholar; and Ebbinghaus's, Julius edition of Locke, Ein Brief über Toleranz, Hamburg 1957Google Scholar (which I have been unable to access).
5 MG, p. xxxi.
6 MM, 20; RVMS, 9; MG, 15; noted by Goldie.
7 MM, 12; RVMS, 5; MG, 11. The Vulgate has ‘compelle’.
8 MM, 38, 46; RVMS, 15, 18; MG, 23, 28. KG follows Popple (85, 93 [‘doubtful’]).
9 MM, 72; RVMS, 28; MG, 41. KG follows Popple (p. 115).
10 MM, 90, 104; RVMS, 36, 41; MG, 52, 59 (the latter noted by Goldie); KG, 131, 145 (but considers the latter difference insignificant: p. 162 n. 66).
11 MM, 112–14; RVMS, 44–5; MG, 65.
12 MM, 30, 64; RVMS, 13, 25; MG, 20, 36.
13 MM, 68; RVMS, 26 (‘among the Indians’); MG, 39.
14 MM, 78, 80; RVMS, 31, 32; MG, 45, 46 (latter change noted by MG); Locke, Two treatises of government, ii, paras 123, 34.
15 ‘By the Consent of the People’ (MG, 13) for ‘ab hominibus’ (MM, 16); noted by Goldie. RVMS has ‘by men’ (p. 7), as does KG (p. 67).
16 MM, 92–4; MG, 4, 53; cf. RVMS, 37; noted by Goldie and KG, 161 n. 58.
17 MM, 64, 32; RVMS, 25, 13; MG, 36–7, 20; the former noted by KG, 109, 159 n. 39. For Furly see KG, 49.
18 MM, 72; RVMS, 28; MG, 42.
19 MM, 56, 104; RVMS, 22, 42; MG, 33, 60.
20 MM, 98; RVMS, 39; MG, p. 56 and n. 150.
21 Cf. Robbins, ‘anticlericalism marks Popple's work’: ‘William Popple’, 215.
22 MM, 60; MG, 34–5.
23 MM, 86; RVMS, 34; MG, 48.
24 MM, 92, 102; RVMS, 37, 41; MG, 53, 58 (both noted by Goldie).
25 MG, 66.
26 MM, 96; RVMS, 38; MG, 55; Horle, Craig W., The Quakers and the English legal system, 1660–1688, Philadelphia 1988CrossRefGoogle Scholar, ch. iii. Goldie notes the galleys but not the auctions.
27 MM, 102; RVMS, 40; MG, 58; KG, 143 (‘a meeting in church should be no less lawful than at court’).
28 Noted by Vernon: RVMS, 8 n. 8.
29 MM, 38, 56; RVMS, 15, 22; MG, 24, 32.
30 MM, 96; RVMS, 38; MG, 55.
31 MM, 108; RVMS, 43; MG, 61. KG, 149, has ‘becoming more anxious to conform their own consciences to the law of God’.
32 Locke, John, A second letter concerning toleration, London 1690 (Wing L2755), 35Google Scholar, as noticed by Proast, Jonas, A third letter concerning toleration, Oxford 1691 (Wing P3539), 11Google Scholar.
33 In rebutting Proast, he quoted Popple's English translation, perhaps in order to retain anonymity.
34 Vernon, Richard, The career of toleration: John Locke, Jonas Proast and after, Montreal 1997Google Scholar; Mark Goldie, ‘John Locke, Jonas Proast and religious toleration, 1688–1692’, in John Walsh, Colin Haydon and Stephen Taylor (eds), The Church of England, c. 1689–c. 1833: from toleration to Tractarianism, Cambridge 1993, 143–71; Wolfson, Adam, ‘Toleration and relativism: the Locke–Proast exchange’, Review of Politics lix (1997), 213–31Google Scholar.
35 This is especially propounded by Waldron, Jeremy: God, Locke and equality: Christian foundations in Lockean political thought, Cambridge 2002Google Scholar, and ‘Locke, toleration and the rationality of persecution’, in Susan Mendus (ed.), Justifying toleration: conceptual and historical perspectives, Cambridge 1988, 61–86.
36 ‘There is … nothing particularly Christian about Locke's theory of toleration’: Wolfson, Persecution and toleration, 80.
37 Although he gives mixed messages on this. On p. 10 he says that Locke accepted Proast's accusation of scepticism and novelty; on p. 65 that he ‘flatly denies’ this.
38 Marshall, John, John Locke, toleration and early Enlightenment culture, Cambridge 2006, ch. xiiGoogle Scholar.
39 Wolfson, Persecution and toleration, 98–9, and ‘Toleration and relativism’, 220 (quotation).
40 RVMS, p. xxxvi.
41 Bodleian Library, Oxford, ms Tanner 338, fos 302r–312r.
42 RVMS, p. xxx.
43 Cf. Goldie on them being at root against antinomians: MG, p. xix.
44 MG, 44; RVMS, 31; MM, 78.
45 Pierre Bayle, A philosophical commentary on … Luke 14:23 [1686–8], ed. J. Kilcullen, Indianapolis 2005, esp. p. 173 and pt ii, chs viii–x; Benedict de Spinoza, Theological-political treatise (1670), trans. R. Elwes, Dover 1951. For a classic statement on Locke see John Dunn, ‘The claim to freedom of conscience: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of worship?’, in Ole Peter Grell, Jonathan I. Israel and Nicholas Tyacke (eds), From persecution to toleration, Oxford 1991, 171–93.
46 Bejczy, István, ‘Tolerantia: a medieval concept’, Journal of the History of Ideas lviii (1997), 365–84, esp. pp. 383–4Google Scholar.
47 B. Kaplan, Divided by faith: religious conflict and the practice of toleration in early modern Europe, Cambridge, Ma 2007; Alexandra Walsham, Charitable hatred: tolerance and intolerance in England, 1500–1700, Manchester 2006; Patrick Collinson, ‘The cohabitation of the faithful with the unfaithful’, in Grell, Israel and Tyacke, Persecution to toleration, 51–76.
48 A. B. Worden, ‘Toleration and the Cromwellian Protectorate’, in W. J. Sheils (ed.) Persecution and toleration (Studies in Church History xxi, 1984), 199–233; cf. the reassertion of a more whiggish stance in Coffey, John, Persecution and toleration in Protestant England, 1558–1689, Harlow 2000Google Scholar.
49 John Locke to Robert Boyle, 12 Dec. 1665, in The correspondence of John Locke, ed. E. S. De Beer, Oxford, 1976–89, i. 228 (letter 175).
